Crazy Genie - Paperback

Name: Crazy Genie - Paperback
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SKU: 9798896230205
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by Inès Cagnati

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Book Overview

A young girl clings fiercely to the damaged love of her mother--a taciturn farmworker cast out by her family and scorned by her village--in this devastating and lyrically rendered novel from a French-Italian maverick.

Marie lives with her mother, Genie, in a ramshackle house by a willow-lined river in rural France. Every morning, Genie walks to the neighboring farms to do what work there is to be done. When farmers and villagers greet her, she says nothing, and keeps walking. Once, she was a lighthearted girl from the best family in the valley; now they all call her "Crazy Genie." While her mother works, Marie waits, yearning for her mother to notice her, longing for the moment when they will be back in their lonely house by the river.

Told in Marie's ingenuous, straightforward voice, Crazy Genie is the second novel by Inès Cagnati, who grew up in poverty in rural France in the 1940s, the child of Italian immigrant agricultural workers. Rich in observation and detail, and devastating in its portrayal of a child's unconditional love and of society's callous prejudices, Crazy Genie, together with her first novel, Free Day, confirms Cagnati's astonishing power as a writer.

ISBN	9798896230205
Author	Inès Cagnati
Publisher	New York Review of Books
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	March 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	160
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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